POWER PLATFORM – ERROR HANDLING

If you have to fail, fail graciously ERROR HANDLING – LOW CODE – WHY? This is very important, if your app wants to play with men. My analogy is there are boys and there are men, boys are the most common low app found, you know the typical three screen scenario. The ideas may be […]

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POWERAPPS – GALLERY COLLECTION

Newbie Tip – may just save you time GALLERY DATASOURCE – COLLECTION Using a collection as a datasource to gallery has many advantages, as detailed by multiple blogs. It is suffice for me to say – the flexibility of a collection is a game changer. Once you have a collection, updating the collection (for example […]

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POWER APPS ONSELECT FRIEND OR FOE

What – this is core functionality – why are you questioning this? CLICK OR TAB TO CONTROL Clicking a textbox will start the OnSelect action, but tabbing to same control (forward tabbing or back tabbing) does not start the OnSelect action . So how do you instruct a user to only click. You can’t so […]

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POWER APPs GREAT TOOL

Warning – unfortunately only applicable for more advanced Pasopa is a tool that can be used to unzip the msapp file. This is brilliant as Power Apps has a method to keep track of changes. A really important for any company that wishes to make use of Power Apps. Initially Power Apps did not have […]

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Field Service – Pricing Functionality

It is Not Project Operations Although a lot of the functionality is similar between Field Service and Project Operations. Pricing functionality is not.This has confused many of colleagues, in particular if they come from Project Operations (PSA) to Field Service. Instead it is similar to Sales functionality. Sales Price in Field Service I want to […]

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POWER APPS – FISSION DEV – Part 4

Level: Yellow (on scale of white, yellow, orange, …, black) Very Basic Themes (Still getting there) I really want to discuss ‘very basic themes’, but there are a couple of pre-requisites. Last time the concept of variables and collections wrt scope (global or local) and naming conventions was discussed. This time is naming conventions for […]

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POWER APPS – FISSION DEV – Part 3

Level: Orange (on scale of white, yellow, orange, …, black) Very Basic Themes Last time we discussed “Nucleus: First Field on Screen“, this time we extend the concept by introducing themes.Microsoft have introduced a great theming method. However, I feel this may be a little cumbersome for the newbie.This method suggested below is vey basic […]

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POWER APPS – FISSION DEV – Part 2

Background (this is not FUSION development) The scenario is for a ‘Pro’ developer to build a Power App, in such a way that the ‘Citizen’ developer can maintain 80% of the app without requiring assistance. Why this post series: The aim of this post series is to make coding simple for the new citizen developer. […]

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POWER APPS – FISSION Development

(this is not FUSION development) Microsoft is really promoting FUSION development. Fusion development with Power Apps is about combining the worlds of the citizen developer, the professional developer, and the other parties instrumental in building and using applications to further the objectives of the business.26 Apr 2021 (Microsoft) However it appears to be focussed about connectors and […]

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Business Central – Webservice – Password

This one wasted a lot of my time. We were building a custom connector to Business Central to test a few concepts. I come from a Dynamics 365 CE background and Business Central is a foreign system to me. Well how hard can it be. Business Central not so bad, but same strange concepts. This […]

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